Table of ContentsPreface. Reaching for the Hoover Brian L. Thomson, Rome-New York CLEANING UP AFTER THE TIGERAfter Shock: The Irish Crash and its Aftermath Kieran Allen, University College DublinTiger, Tiger Burning Bright: Irish Black Crime in the Wake of the Celtic Tiger Charles Bane, University of Central ArkansasMetaphors and Crisis in the Irish Newspaper Discourse: A Call for Disaffection? Andrea Binelli, University of TrentoA Speculative Ireland: Risk and the Everyday in the Fiction of Hugo Hamilton Jason Buchanan, Purdue UniversityTheory,Practice, and the Need for Commitment in CultureEnrico Terrinoni, University of Rome 3POETRYThree Poems Mary Kennan Herbert, New York